The Irwin’s movie set for the big screen

The Pentagon deployed more B-52H bombers to the Middle East in another demonstration of the U.S. military commitment to the region, according to a U.S.

When this is all over—Covid, unrest, financial reconstruction—will Los Angeles still be the Movie Capital? Perhaps not.

As the world enters a second year under the sway of COVID-19, it’s just about the last topic anyone wants to see featured in a new movie release. Hollywood has a history of taking advantage of lousy situations for the sake of a timely story, however.

Shahab Hosseini (The Salesman) is set to star as Iranian-American physicist and inventor Ali Javan in an upcoming biopic to be written and directed by Kourosh Ahari (The Night). Javan firstproposed the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories.A successful prototype, constructed by him in collaboration with W.

President Trump and anyone else linked to the U.S. strike one year ago that killed a notorious Iranian general "will not be safe on Earth," a top official in Tehran warned Friday, according to a report.

Bindi Irwin reflected on a difficult 2020 in an emotional post about her family's zoo.

Two American B-52 bombers flew a nonstop, 30-plus-hour, round-trip mission from the United States to the Middle East to send a fresh warning to Iran as a senior military official said new warnings had been detected, a sign that potential "complex attacks" against Americans are brewing as the one-year anniversary of the U.S. killing Iran’s most powerful general looms.

At the beginning of 2020, moviegoers were looking forward to seeing titles like Dune, Black Widow, In the Heights, Jungle Cruise, Eternals and West Side Story as well as long-awaited sequels to Coming to America and Top Gun and the latest installments in the James Bond, Fast & Furious, Ghostbusters and Halloween franchises on the big screen. But just a few months into the year, everything changed with the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefWhile the North American box office pulls in less than $5 million per weekend due to COVID-19, the China and Japan markets are not only open, but also capable of breaking theatrical records. It may feel logical to hurry more U.S.

An Iranian woman who shocked the Internet with her attempts to look like actor Angelina Jolie has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, according to her lawyers in Iran.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentVariety is celebrating its 115th birthday and, amid all the upheaval of 2020, it’s good to remember that the entertainment industry has survived constant change and adaptation. That’s reassuring.

Sylvie's Love, the upcoming Amazon romance feature starring Tessa Thompson andNnamdi Asomugha, made its big-screen debut on Sunday night with a drive-in screening at Malibu's Calamigos Ranch. The film follows star-crossed lovers Sylvie (Thompson) and Robert (Asomugha) in 1950s Harlem, after finding love one summer and being torn apart by their career aspirations, only to reconnect years later.

The guided-missile submarine USS Georgia entered the Persian Gulf on Monday in America’s latest deterrence mission against Iran.   The submarine – which is armed with up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles and a dry deck shelter for Navy SEALs – was escorted by cruisers Port Royal and Philippine Sea.   It’s the first time in eight years the U.S.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefJessica Chastain’s “Ava” has skipped a theatrical release in China, but is instead to get the widest possible online outing in the Middle Kingdom. From Saturday it is available on China’s four largest generalist streaming platforms: Tencent Video, Alibaba-owned Youku, iQIYI and Mango TV.The maneuver was piloted by Los Angeles and Beijing based Leeding Media.

Screen Media has acquired U.S. digital rights to After the Murder of Albert Lima, a true-crime documentary thriller directed and produced by Aengus James and which counts Meredith Vieira among its executive producers. With the deal, it will be released as a Crackle Original in the first quarter of 2021.